So I’ll continue to look at those pictures and remember the fun that I had in my old workshop.
15th April 2025
One of the things I like about the book of faces (amongst many that I really don’t…) is the daily ‘Memories’ collections that pop up for me to look at. Today’s was particularly pleasing because not only did it remind me of an Eduard 1/72 Fw190 that I built a number of years ago, it dropped in some pictures of my old shed, the place that I worked for so long before moving into the house and my new studio…
Though the shed is now long gone, replaced by my wife’s summer house, the memories linger on so when I see such images I can remember almost exactly what I was working on and how I felt inside my little wooden home.
Truth be told, almost everything that helped me to make my name, especially during my days in competition, were built in The Shed. From The Workshop diorama, through The Dig and onto the 1/24 Harrier T.2 conversion, they were all built in there. My YouTube channel began in there; my books were written and designed in there; I even released a kit that I built and packed in that 6ft x 12ft wooden garden shed.
Honestly, I loved it.
Time though moved on, so when I had the chance to move indoors, into a room that had actual heating within it, I decided it was time to call it a day out in the garden. I still miss having the door open in the summer and being able to look out over the garden, but I don’t miss the cold in the winter and the boiling temperatures during the summer. Wrapping up was no fun when it snowed; stripping almost bare one particularly warm week during the summer when Tamiya’s Mosquito needed to be built, sweat everywhere as the temps topped 90, equally so.
So I’ll continue to look at those pictures and remember the fun that I had in my old workshop. The models are still around me as well, as are the images I took and the books and magazines that I created. The Shed has gone; everything else remains. Great memories.
See you tomorrow.
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